Archived Title Selections & Ratings

2024

Month, Title, Author, Rating (NF- Nonfiction, NR- Not Rated)

January - The Pickwick Papers

4.00

Charles Dickens

February - The Boys in the Boat (NF)

4.48

Daniel James Brown

March - The Nickel Boys

3.90

Colson Whitehead

April - The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

4.47

James McBride

May - The Rediscovery of America (NF)

3.50

Ned Blackhawk

June - Trust

3.63

Hernan Diaz

July - The Passenger

3.34

Cormac McCarthy

August - Stolen Focus (NF)

4.09

Johann Hari

September - The Winter Fortress (NF)

4.26

Neal Bascomb

October - Demon Copperhead

4.81

Barbara Kingsolver

November - The Lincoln Highway

4.51

Amor Towles

December - Cannery Row

4.68

John Steinbeck

2024 Average

4.14

Average of 12 titles

2025

Month, Title, Author, Rating (NF- Nonfiction, NR- Not Rated)

January - Prophet Song

4.16

Paul Lynch

February - James

4.21

Percival Everett

March - The Portrait of A Lady

Henry James

April - They Came Like Swallows

3.77

William Keepers Maxwell Jr.

May - Brideshead Revisited

Evelyn Waugh

June - North Woods

3.60

Daniel Mason

July - The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (NF)

3.70

Tom Wolfe

August - Someone

4.23

Alice McDermott

September - Under the Volcano

Malcolm Lowry

October - The Dutch House

3.72

Ann Patchett

November - Evicted (NF)

3.97

Matthew Desmond

December - Christmas Book Exchange

2025 Average

3.98

Average of 8 titles

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